Port of Morrow chords by The Shins

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Through the rain and all the clatter
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Under the Fremont bridge
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I saw a pigeon fly
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C 
Fly in fear from the raptor come
to take its life
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Verse 2

And as it closed in for the capture

I funneled the fear through

my ancient eyes

To see in flight,

what I know are the bitter mechanics of life

Verse 3
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Under my hat it reads "The
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lines are all imagined"
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A fact of life I know to hide
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from my little girls
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I know my place amongst the
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bugs and all the animals
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And it's from these ordinary people
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you are longing to be free
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Verse 4
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My hotel and on the TV
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A preacher on a stage like
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a buzzard cries
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Out a warning of phony sorrow,
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he's trying to get a rise

Verse 5
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The cyanide from an almond
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Let him look at your hands,
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get the angles right
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Ace of spades, port of morrow,
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life is death is life
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Verse 6
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I saw a photograph:
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Cologne in '27
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And then a postcard after the
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bombs in '45
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Must've been a  world of evil
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clowns that let it happen

Verse 7

But now I recognize, dear listeners

That you were there and so was I

Interlude 1

Verse 8
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Under my hat I know the lines
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are all imagined
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A fact of life I must im
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press on my little girls
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I know my place amongst the
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creatures in the pageant
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Dm 
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And there are flowers in the garbage, and a skull under your
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Am 
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curls